New in shrink wrap.. Cloth boards. From the series BRILL'S STUDIES IN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY, volume 92. "This volume deals with the study of Old Germanic lang uages in the Low Countries, in the seventeenth century. The work of the philologist and lawyer Jan van Vliet (1622-1666) has been taken as a starting point for a discussion of the intellectual backgro und and philological methodology of seventeenth-century investigati ons into the earliest recorded forms of the Germanic languages. Van Vliet's activities provide an extraordinary example of the earlie st attempts to approach Old Germanic languages from a comparative point of view. The cosmopolitan tradition of philological studies in the Dutch Republic as well as Van Vliet's great admiration of Fra ncis Junius (1590-1677) , the founding-father of Germanic philology, formed the basis for his ideas about vernacular languages. His work allows us a unique insight in the pioneering seventeenth-century studies in Germanic philology. " Historical linguistics. History. Philologists - Netherlands - Germanists. Germanic languages - history. Language. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 479 pp